Gallery: Light Sculptures That Challenge Your Sense of Reality

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    James Clar
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    room-1-b

    James Clar's most recent exhibition explores how we perceive reality. This piece, *Space Is a Hologram* blurs the line between 2-D and 3-D.
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    James Clar
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    clouds-install

    *Clouds* recreates the movement of clouds by visualizing the cooler temperatures at the top and the warmer temperatures at the bottom.
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    James Clar
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    still-life-install

    Clar creates a surreal desktop scene in *Still Life (under water)* by submerging a laptop and lamp in mineral oil.
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    James Clar
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    blue star

    Using LEDs and filters, Clar imagines what it might be like if our sun emitted blue light.
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    James Clar
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    freefall-install

    In *Freefall v9* Clar recreates the motion lines found in comics and animations through illumination and color
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    James Clar
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    high viscosity liquid

    *High Viscosity Liquid* illustrates a substance heating up then turning into liquid and dripping down the wall.
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